Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I welcome the question from the Leader of the Opposition, who's actually asked me to comment on their tax policy. That is what the question goes to, and I welcome it, because tomorrow we'll be introducing tax reductions, and they'll have a chance to vote for them or to vote against them.

Now, we know that, when we changed stage 3, they said that they were going to fight it, that they were going to oppose it and that we should call an election on it, and then they voted for it. We know that, when it came to the tax cuts that were in last year's budget, they said that they'd oppose them. They voted against them. To be fair to them, they did what they said they'd do, and, then, do you know what they did? They took it to an election and they got smashed. They got smashed, which is why they're down to 41 members over there.

They have other tax policies as well. They want higher taxes on the resources and manufacturing sectors, because they want to abolish the production tax credits. They want higher taxes on motorists by abolishing the EV concession. Of course, we know they wanted higher student debts. We know that they want higher power bills, because they want to abolish the Cheaper Home Batteries Program. We know they want more expensive training courses, because they want to abolish free TAFE.

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